UPDATES This year's additions and corrections to the site are listed opposite, with the most recent at the top. I'm not working to any schedule: this isn't a job, I'm doing it for fun. |
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New article: Nachtschlachtgruppe 8 on the Oder Front, 1945. The Luftwaffe and St.-Exupéry: several additions including new evidence from the Bletchley Park Archive about German air activity on 31 July 1944 and a summary of Guy Julien's counter-arguments to my interpretation of the day's events. Markings and Camouflage: a report about Hakenkreuze being mistaken for white rings and a Göring order about an "imminent large-scale operation of the fighter arm" in November 1944. I./JG 2 in Italy: addtions regarding 10-day strength returns, loss and damage, events in the calendar of operations. Sonderstaffel Kaatsch: strength figures for 1, 10, 20 and 30 September and 10 October 1944. Kommando Kunkel: some new strength figures for February, March and April 1944. NSG 9: additional order of battle data for February–April 1944 Geschwader Bongart: information about the Luftwaffe's stocks of the Re. 2002, a new entry for 4 June and a correction regarding operations on 30 and 31 July 1944. Jagdgruppe 200: small biographical addition about Ltn. Kurt Bell. Air Raid Damage: a note on the cover designation Airfield 1463 and more about Erprobungskommando 152's strength. Sonderstaffel Einhorn: additional sources.
Background and sources for my c. 25,000-word history Sonderstaffel Einhorn and III./KG 200: from Self-sacrifice to Surrender in Axis Wings Volume 1 (Chandos Publications, 2024). Raid damage reports: the destruction of 14 Focke-Wulf Ta 152's at Cottbus-Neuhausen on 16 January 1945 plus information about the Gefechtsverband Kommando der Erprobungsstellen. Geschwader Bongart: a detailed report of operations round Limoges on 16 June 1944 (with thanks to Georg Schlaug). Kommando Koch: specifications of the Karl I and II jamming transmitters. Listening and Jamming: specifications of the Kettenhund, Nervtöter and Starnberg jamming transmitters. 1.(F)100: some addtions about flights and movements in late April/early May 1945 and to the order of battle at Appendix 3. Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen:figures for monthly allocations of night fighters. SG 4 in Italy: note about the fate of Horst Wegener of 7./JG 53. Minor corrections to typing, links and layouts. |
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